Re: Continuing struggle with expiry

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> / prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) was heard to say:
> | Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
> |> What function actually cleans up articles marked expired that are older
> |> than expiry-wait days?
> |
> | nn*-request-expire-articles.
>
> Uncle! I like to think I enjoy elisp hackery as much as the next guy,
> but the more I investigate this problem, the less sense it makes.
>
> Expiry isn't working for me because nnml-request-expire-articles calls
> nnmail-expired-article-p with mod-time set to '(15679 803). And when
> nnmail-expired-article-p asks for the (time-since '(15679 803)), time-since
> goes bang:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument number-or-marker-p nil)
>   time-since((15679 803))
>   eval((time-since (quote (15679 803))))
>
> That is, the byte-compiled, auto-loaded version of time-since goes
> bang. If I copy the definition of time-since into *scratch* and
> compile it myself, which I did initially in order to debug it further,
> it runs just fine, thank you very much.

Are you using the correct time-since?  I think a problem like this was
solved in time-date.el a few months ago, so if you have an older byte
compiled version still laying around somewhere, perhaps your emacs
uses the wrong one.  Try C-h f time-since in a fresh Gnus.